diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/localstyle.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/localstyle.pm
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..111f4dc30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/localstyle.pm
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+package IkiWiki::Plugin::localstyle;
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+use IkiWiki 3.00;
+
+sub import {
+	hook(type => "getsetup", id => "localstyle", call => \&getsetup);
+	hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "localstyle", call => \&pagetemplate);
+}
+
+sub getsetup () {
+	return
+		plugin => {
+			safe => 1,
+			rebuild => 1,
+		},
+}
+
+sub pagetemplate (@) {
+	my %params=@_;
+	
+	my $template=$params{template};
+	
+	if ($template->query(name => "local_css")) {
+		my $best=bestlink($params{page}, 'local.css');
+		if ($best) {
+			$template->param(local_css => $best);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+1
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6a5ae30ab..4ab63f175 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ ikiwiki (3.20091032) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     the template is filled out. This improves the search plugin's indexing,
     since it will not include navigational elements from the page template
     or sidebar.
+  * localstyle: New plugin, allows overrding the toplevel local.css
+    with one that is closer to a page.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:04:29 -0500
 
diff --git a/doc/css.mdwn b/doc/css.mdwn
index 20790b3d1..29a335596 100644
--- a/doc/css.mdwn
+++ b/doc/css.mdwn
@@ -16,3 +16,6 @@ files.
 
 The [[plugins/meta]] plugin can be used to add additional style sheets to a
 page.
+
+The [[plugins/localstyle]] plugin can be used to override the toplevel
+[[local.css]] for a whole section of the wiki.
diff --git a/doc/plugins/localstyle.mdwn b/doc/plugins/localstyle.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70a909d68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/plugins/localstyle.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[[!template id=plugin name=localstyle author="[[Joey]]"]]
+[[!tag type/chrome]]
+
+This plugin allows styling different sections of a wiki using different
+versions of the local.css [[CSS]] file. Normally this file is read from the
+top level of the wiki, but with this plugin enabled, standard
+[[ikiwiki/subpage/LinkingRules]] are used to find the closest local.css
+file to each page.
+
+So, for example, to use different styling for page `foo`, as well as all
+of its [[SubPages|ikiwiki/subpage]], such as `foo/bar`, create a
+`foo/local.css`.
diff --git a/templates/page.tmpl b/templates/page.tmpl
index e71ba316d..0e73463ec 100644
--- a/templates/page.tmpl
+++ b/templates/page.tmpl
@@ -7,8 +7,13 @@
 <TMPL_IF NAME="FAVICON">
 <link rel="icon" href="<TMPL_VAR BASEURL><TMPL_VAR FAVICON>" type="image/x-icon" />
 </TMPL_IF>
+<TMPL_IF NAME="STYLE_CSS">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>style.css" type="text/css" />
+<TMPL_IF NAME="LOCAL_CSS">
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="<TMPL_VAR BASEURL><TMPL_VAR LOCAL_CSS>" type="text/css" />
+<TMPL_ELSE>
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="<TMPL_VAR BASEURL>local.css" type="text/css" />
+</TMPL_IF>
 <TMPL_IF NAME="EDITURL">
 <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-wiki" title="Edit this page" href="<TMPL_VAR EDITURL>" />
 </TMPL_IF>